I'd say from this that Disney are at least TRYING to cater to everyone here...

A character actor from the 1930's 40's named Steppin Fetchitt makes a very brief appearance in this short. He is a caricature of a slow dim-witted african slave. Very distastful image that was used in several of the disney shorts of the time. See broken toys for example. Leonard Maltin will most likelt refer to this and other such occurences.

[quote="matthewgb"]A character actor from the 1930's 40's named Steppin Fetchitt makes a very brief appearance in this short. He is a caricature of a slow dim-witted african slave. Very distastful image that was used in several of the disney shorts of the time. See broken toys for example. Leonard Maltin will most likelt refer to this and other such occurences.[/quote]

THAT explains things...I was very confused about what stereotypes Leonard Maltin was going to talk about for over half a minute for this Autograph Hound short! I thought my copy was uncensored, but I've never seen the Steppin Fetchitt character in The Autograph Hound.

Yes, I consider Broken Toys to have the worst of the black caricatures of any Disney cartoon - but most people have not seen Broken Toys uncensored. I have an uncensored copy, but every other copy I've seen have had the Steppin Fetchitt scenes cut out. That is one Silly Symphony in a future Silly Symphony Treasure set that I will be very surprised to see shown uncensored.

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